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phc_38_1_hickerson_thomas_felix.xmlFinding Aid of the Thomas Felix Hickerson Photograph Collection,
1689 - ca. 1896Processed by: Stephen E. Massengill; machine-readable finding aid created by: Dietra Stanley; updated by: Aaron Cusick
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2012Machine-readable finding aid derived from XML authoring program.Date of source: January, 2012Description is in
EnglishFinding Aid of the Thomas Felix Hickerson Photograph Collection, 1689 - ca. 1896North Carolina State Archives
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Descriptive Summary
North Carolina State Archives.Hickerson, Thomas Felix, 1882-1968.Thomas Felix Hickerson Photograph Collection, 1689 - ca. 1896PhC.38.1Materials in
English15Includes photographs ranging in size from 1 1/2 x 2 3/16", to 8 x 5" and 1 death notice card. The collection includes cartes de visites, tintypes, and cabinet cards.For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, North Carolina State Archives.Thomas Felix Hickerson (1882-1968) was born in Wilkes County and lived in the Happy Valley area of the Yadkin River. He was a professor at the University of North Carolina and became an authority on highway engineering. Hickerson also published two books about his home area entitled Happy Valley (1940) and Echoes of Happy Valley (1962).The photographs in this collection came from a photograph album from the estate of Thomas Felix Hickerson (1882-1968). They include portraits of individuals from the western piedmont of North Carolina and a photograph of the home of Hoke C. Secrest in South Carolina. In addition, there is an obituary card in memory of Gen. Collett Leventhorpe (d. 1889).
Administrative Information
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Available for research.

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Transferred to the State Archives by Weymouth T. Jordan of the Publications Section on March 16, 1988. It was donated to the Archives by Tom Broadfoot, 1907 Buenavista Circle, Wilmington, North Carolina 28405; accessioned on December, 1990.

Processing Information

Processed by Stephen E. Massengill, December, 1990

Encoded by Dietra Stanley

Enocoding updated by Aaron Cusick, January, 2012

Biographical Note

Thomas Felix Hickerson (1882-1968) was born in Wilkes County and lived in the Happy Valley area of the Yadkin River. He was a professor at the University of North Carolina and became an authority on highway engineering. Hickerson also published two books about his home area entitled Happy Valley (1940) and Echoes of Happy Valley (1962).

Collection Overview

The photographs in this collection came from a photograph album from the estate of Thomas Felix Hickerson. Most of the photographs are portraits of individuals from the western piedmont. The majority of them are unidentified; however many of the pictures contain the name and location of the photographer. There are several examples of the work of Henry A. Lineback of Salem as well as A. McIntosh of Hickory. The one non-portrait is a view of the home of Hoke C. Secrest in South Carolina, eighteen miles from Spartanburg. The collection also contains a cabinet card of William Jennings Bryan. In addition, there is an obituary card in memory of Gen. Collett Leventhorpe (d. 1889), a native of England and an officer in the Confederate Army.

Collection Arrangement

The collection is arranged alphabetically by the surname of the individual, followed by the unidentified people, the Secrest home, and the obituary card.

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

A native of England, he was a colonel in the 11th Regiment, North Carolina Troops and was later promoted to brigadier general in the Army of Northern Virginia. Leventhorpe operated mines in Western North Carolina before the war.